Reflection – 10.10.09

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A study in writing – 10.01.09 – 12:04 AM

“First, find out what your hero wants, then just follow him!”
– Ray Bradbury

I began to think about when I started writing, and why it is that I write. The when is unclear; in reality it started decades ago when I was just a child telling far fetched stories, be them on paper or directly to my peers. Sometimes I told them as truths, and I guess sometimes as I saw them, they were; they were dancing images burned into the Cineplex of my mind, clear and true as day. Separating that reality was my nemesis, until I met pen and paper. Then, and only then, there was no need for separation, everything could be true, and it was.

Why do I write? I write to create silence. I write to quiet the Cineplex of my mind that still turns in endless reels of untold wonders. I write for the above, so that all could be truth, and in that truth, all could be lovely. I write because I articulate poorly and come across awkwardly, I write because that is what I am. There are few things that in a single word can define the whole of a person. And though I am one to hate titles more than anything, I quietly embrace the one that embraces me. I am a writer. In every aspect, in every commercial definition, in all of the oddities, it is me and I am it. And that, I suppose, is reason enough for me.
-Briggs

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